'Only the Good Survive' Review: A Refreshing Crime Thriller With a Rogue Streak

Film festivals are so often about buzzed-up titles, either the ones discovered during or scooped up by buyers before the festivals' run dates, that...

March 23, 2023
1:10 AM

Film festivals are so often about buzzed-up titles, either the ones discovered during or scooped up by buyers before the festivals' run dates, that humbler titles wanting for the same advantages are drowned out in the PR rumpus. Only the Good Survive , Dutch Southern's debut feature, is one of those movies, contained by a smaller scale but no less remarkable than the big-ticket hype beasts over-pampered by the spotlight. Naturally, it will go overlooked. This is a crime. But not as much of a crime as the one Southern unspools from the movie's first frames to its last.

Andy Crump